Lighting the Fuse

With summer behind us, I feel its only fair to keep spirits up with a little series about superyachts. Of course I have written here before about, amongst other things, Mukesh Ambani’s yacht. But lets focus on some more. The first is called Sea Force 1. She is owned by a London banker who wanted […]

I have written here before about Yachts: for example Depp’s Yacht the VAJOLIROJA, the amazing Athena that was moored in Sydney Harbour over New Year’s Eve, and of course the yacht that has been commissioned by India’s Mukesh Ambani. However one of the more amazing craft I have seen recently has to be this one, […]

I’ve written here before about Mukesh Ambani’s home in Mumbai, which is the world’s first USD 1 billion residence (and incidentally is 25 stories high). Well it seems that Ambani has done it again, with the creation of this simply stunning Yacht. The yacht will be moored in Mumbai and built by a french shipbuilder. […]

I’ve recently come across a little website which nicely summarises the most expensive stuff in the world. I’d quite like to get to a point where I could do my shopping on a website that always guaranteed I was paying the maximum possible price. These items in particular interested me: The world’s most expensive watch […]

If you were in Sydney for New Year’s Eve you will not have missed the Athena. Owned by serial entrepreneur perhaps best known for co-founding Netscape, Jim Clarke, the Athena is a clipper-bowed 3 masted Gaff Rigged Schooner (apparently, at least according to this wikipedia entry). There are few man made things that can hold their own […]

As a hollywood legend, its not surprising that Johnny Depp has a pretty rock’n’roll yacht. But its the name of his boat that is especially cool. Take the first letters of each of the names of his family. Of course his wife is Vanessa Paradis, (“Va”), himself (“Jo”), his daughter Lily Rose (“LiRo”) and son […]